A DEAL AND ITS CONSEQUENCES My eyes were bandaged tight, and a thong was run round my right wrist and tied to Laputa's saddle-bow.

I felt the glare of the afternoon sun on my head, and my shins were continually barked by stones and trees; but these were my only tidings of the outer world.

By the sound of his paces Laputa was riding the Schimmel, and if any one thinks it easy to go blindfold by a horse's side I hope he will soon have the experience.
In the darkness I could not tell the speed of the beast.

When I ran I overshot it and was tugged back; when I walked my wrist was dislocated with the tugs forward.
For an hour or more I suffered this breakneck treatment.

We were descending.